The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 5
The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed.
Who acts: idea, Hare · What happens: amuse, run, agree · To what, where: Hare, idea, race, thing
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, Hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 amused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amused | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 amused | advmod |
| 5 | amused | amuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 idea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 idea | det |
| 8 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amused | obl |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 running | mark |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 idea | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 race | det |
| 12 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Tortoise | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tortoise | det |
| 15 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fun | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 fun | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 fun | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fun | det |
| 20 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amused | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 thing | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fun | nmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 agreed | nsubj |
| 25 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 thing | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past · passive | the Hare | the idea | for the fun of the thing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | the idea not said here | a race | with the Tortoise | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Product with tortoise=Material | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | Hare | the thing not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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